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- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
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Overview
Chief qadi Taqi al-Din al-Subki died in Egypt on the night of Monday in Jumada II 756/June 1355 and was buried that same morning. He had completed ninety-three years and entered his ninety-fourth, having held the bench at Damascus for about seventeen years before ceding it to his son Taj al-Din; on reaching Egypt he survived less than a month. A funeral prayer was held for him at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday 6 Jumada II 1. He authored some hundred and fifty works in law, fatwas, responsa and poetry 2.
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- Taqi al-Din al-Subki
- Occurred at
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Subki summoned to Egypt, then restored at Damascus, 743/1342· Al-Subki leaves Damascus for Egypt in a litter, 26 Rabi' II 756· Al-Subki teaches at the Mansuriyya, Cairo, 723/1323· Al-Subki hears hadith and studies in Egypt in his youth, c. 700/1301· Shaykh of Dar al-Hadith al-Zahiriyya, Cairo, Shawwal 723· Taj al-Din al-Subki· Taqi al-Din al-Subki· Cairo
Sources
- al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir , s.a. 756 pp. 263-264
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 9 pp. 744-745
- Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut)
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islam.museum contributors. “Death of Taqi al-Din al-Subki in Egypt, Jumada II 756/June 1355”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/death-al-subki-756/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.